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The family of Iran's once most senior dissident cleric has canceled commemorations to mark the one-year anniversary of his death, saying it fears a repeat of the clashes between supporters and security forces that marred the late cleric's funeral last year.In a statement released late Friday, the family of the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri also accused the ruling Islamic establishment of being more brutal than the pro-U.S. regime of former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.Montazeri's family had planned a memorial service in the holy city of Qom to mark the first anniversary of Montazeri's Dec. 20 death. But it said it was calling it off over concerns of a government crackdown similar to the one security forces carried out last year during Montazeri's funeral, when tens of thousands of Iranians turned out to march in what became an anti-government protest